Medical Anthropology @ UWM

Medical anthropology at UWM encompasses a wide range of cultural, social and biological perspectives on human health and the medical system. Faculty are actively engaged in research both in the U.S. and abroad on topics including ...

the economics of the pharmaceutical industry

the ethnography of medical ethics

biocultural studies

The program is strongest in the anthropology of mental health and psychiatry. Faculty members share overlapping interests in the causes of mental disorder and the social contexts of treatment. Graduate students, however, can pursue a wide range of topics, drawing on the expertise of UWM and other local anthropologists in medical pluralism, AIDS prevention, and international humanitarian assistance.